User:Jeff Skolnick

Jeffrey Skolnick is the Director of the Center for the Study of Systems Biology in the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology. He attended graduate school in Chemistry at Yale University, receiving a Ph.D. in Chemistry in polymer statistical mechanics. He then held a postdoctoral fellowship at Bell Laboratories. Next, he joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Then, he moved to Washington University, where he was subsequently appointed Professor of Chemistry. There he was also Director of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at Washington University. He joined the Department of Molecular Biology of the Scripps Research Institute, where he held the rank of Professor. Among his awards is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Biophysical Society, a Fellow of the St. Louis Academy of Science Recently, he moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of over 285 publications and has served on numerous editorial boards including Biophysical Journal, Biopolymers, Proteins, and the Journal of Chemical Physics. He is also a cofounder of an early stage structural proteomics company, GeneFormatics, and his software has been commercialized by Tripos. His current research interests are in the area of computational biology and bioinformatics. He has developed algorithms for the prediction of protein structure and folding pathways from protein sequence. In addition, he has been extensively involved in the simulation of membranes and membrane peptides. Most recently, he has developed approaches to predict protein function from amino acid sequence, to assign proteins to pathways, to predict protein-protein interactions, and to predict lead compounds for drug discovery as well as in the development of tools for metabolic profiling and cancer diagnostics.